The loneliness of Justin Amash
Explain It to Me
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Oh, for Pete's sake! |
| 0:02.0 | Ha ha ha! |
| 0:04.0 | Ha ha ha! |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Matthew Glacias, here with Darra Lindt and Jane Kostin. |
| 0:21.1 | And I wanted to talk today about Justin Amash, who has long been, I think, one more interesting |
| 0:24.5 | members of Congress, but who got interesting in a very interesting way over the weekend. |
| 0:31.8 | When he did, this is 2019, so this is how you do things. |
| 0:38.1 | But this is a Republican member of Congress from Michigan. |
| 0:41.1 | He did a tweet storm saying that he had read the Mueller report and he had concluded |
| 0:44.2 | that Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses. |
| 0:49.2 | This is obviously a controversial stance inside the Republican caucus. |
| 0:52.3 | It's going to go into all kinds of trouble. |
| 0:56.4 | But I think, you know, before we delve into the specifics of that, it's just like, who |
| 0:58.8 | is this guy, right? |
| 1:02.4 | Because like, this is not like a moderate Republican who's holding on to a blue-leaning |
| 1:03.4 | district by that skin of his fingers looking to save his career. |
| 1:08.7 | This is someone who came in, you know, he is a libertarian conservative. |
| 1:13.1 | He came into Congress as part of the Tea Party Revolution of 2010. |
| 1:19.0 | And if you remember what the Tea Party was originally about, the Tea Party stated that |
| 1:23.2 | its purpose was to fight for a limited government and lower taxes and just getting the state |
| 1:27.9 | out of the individual lives in the homes of everyday Americans. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox Media Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Vox Media Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

